U+6609 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+6609 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for sun or day on the left and the phonetic component for square or direction on the right, carrying the primary meanings of "beginning" or "dawn." In classical and modern Chinese, it is most commonly used in personal names and literary contexts to convey a sense of starting, originating, or the first light of day. This character also appears in historical records and poetry, where it evokes imagery related to sunrise or the onset of a new period, reflecting its semantic roots in time and emergence.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
昉
HTML Hex Encoding
昉
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE6 0x98 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0x6609
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00006609
C/C++/Java Escape
\u6609

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
CCC4
kCCCII
22375A
kCNS1986
2-2725
kCNS1992
2-2725
kCangjie
AYHS
kCantonese
fong2
kCihaiT
630.402
kDaeJaweon
0852.120
kDefinition
bright dawn, daybreak; appear
kEACC
22375A
kFanqie
分网
kFourCornerCode
6002.7
kGB3
3954
kGB8
9227
kGSR
0740j
kHangul
방:0N
kHanYu
21496.020
kHanyuPinyin
21496.020:fǎng
kIBMJapan
FAD1
kIICore
AGTKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21496.020
kIRG_GSource
G3-4756
kIRG_HSource
HB2-CCC4
kIRG_JSource
J13-752D
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-DDBA
kIRG_KSource
K0-5B32
kIRG_TSource
T2-2725
kJapanese
ホウ はじめて まさに
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3906
kJIS0213
1,85,13
kJapaneseKun
AKIRAKA
kJapaneseOn
HOU
kJis1
3388
kKangXi
0491.040
kKorean
PANG
kMainlandTelegraph
2499
kMandarin
fǎng
kMatthews
1809
kMeyerWempe
533e
kMojiJoho
MJ013194
kMorohashi
13796
kPhonetic
373
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+8474+70.4.4 C+8474+72.4.4
kRSUnicode
72.4
kSBGY
313.02
kSMSZD2003Index
289.06 285.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
fǎng粵fong2
kTaiwanTelegraph
2499
kTGHZ2013
093.170:fǎng
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHKMPT
kXerox
277:335
kXHC1983
0309.040:fǎng